Christoph Hohlfeld

Christoph Hohlfeld (born July 15, 1922 in Pegau , Saxony, † October 9, 2010 ) was a German music theorist and composer .

Christoph Hohlfeld received his musical stamp as a member of the Leipzig St. Thomas Choir from Karl Straube and Günther Ramin . After the war and imprisonment, he studied composition and theory with Wilhelm Weismann and Arnold Mats at the Leipzig Music Academy .

Stations of his activity were Halle, Berlin and Dresden. In 1960, Wilhelm Maler appointed him to the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg, where he then worked as a teacher of composition and music theory . In 1968 Hohlfeld was appointed professor. In recognition of his research in music theory, he was awarded the honorary doctorate of musicology (Dr. hc sc. Mus.) In 1992. In addition to his music theory work, compositions in various genres have been created over the years.

Since the beginning of his teaching activity, Christoph Hohlfeld has been one of the formative teachers at the Hamburg University of Music. With his great professional competence and his extraordinary pedagogical commitment he not only shaped generations of music theorists, but also students of other disciplines. His independent and in its time novel music-theoretical approach, which starts from the melody and the single tone, was first disseminated by his group of students before Hohlfeld summarized the central themes of his work in the three volumes of a school of musical thought: The cantus-firmus- Typesetting in Palestrina (with Reinhard Bahr, 1994); Johann Sebastian Bach. The Well-Tempered Clavier 1722 (2000); and Beethovens Weg (2003).

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Hohlfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
• On the death of Christoph Hohlfeld's University of Music and Theater Hamburg, October 11, 2010.